Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An emphasis on race or racial considerations, as in determining policy or interpreting events.
- n. Policy or practice based on racial considerations.
- n. Chiefly British Variant of racism.
Wiktionary
- n. The belief in the existence and significance of racial categories.
- n. The belief in racial separatist ideologies, the emphasis on perceived social and cultural differences among races.
- n. UK Variant term for racism.
WordNet 3.0
- n. discriminatory or abusive behavior towards members of another race
Examples
“The schools are preachers of the modern liberal faith in multiculturalism, environmentalism, moral relativism, anti-imperialism (as if this is what America is about!) and what I call racialism (race consciousness).”
“It might seem that that post racialism is finally here, which was first suggested in the manner Colin Powell is respected.”
“These people write reasonable, well-balanced letters, disclaim any belief in racialism, and back up everything they say with copious instances.”
“In contrast, Obama’s emotional racialism is not at all ancient history.”
“As this passage shows, London's Social Darwinism usually mixed with his interest in racialism.”
“Rather than engage honestly with guilt, they project an outward posture of non-racialism, which is false.”
“June 8th, 2009 3: 38pm it used to be called racialism till the socialists got in. like veterans used to be called ex-servicemen and women. like a loss used to be called a defeat. like a train station used to be called a railway station. you missed from the litany of racialist offences making a complaint to the planning authorities when a gang of car thieves plant their caravans and dogs in a lovely paddock near your house where parking or development are absolutely forbidden. and how many Tory or Lib Dem councillors will dare then to stand up for their anguished constituents in this situation?”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
“Even so, not a murmur from any BBC correspondent about the victims' real racial background only that because they held Rumanian passports they were victims of "racialism".”
“The BCB yesterday issued a public apology to Dowlin for its "racialism" remark and its implications.”
“This is the new non-racialism/non-sexism – removing the possibility of real transformation.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘racialism’.
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Official Misconduct
Words describing types of misconduct by those in public office.
malversation, embezzlement, peculation, racketeering, jobbery, misappropriation, defalcation, venality, favouritism, favoritism, nepotism, gerrymandering and 44 more...
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Isms
This list has the humble goal of cataloging every word in the English language.
capitalism, marxism, communism, catholicism, mormonism, fascism, whiggism, medievalism, neojacobinism, scientism, racialism, naderism and 1 more...
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-isms
fascism, anarchism, satanism, racism, racialism, nordicism, nazism, socialism, catholicism, national socialism, paganism, hinduism and 67 more...
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Liberal Fascism
Words gathered while reading Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg
de rigueur, palingenetic, christianist, himmleresque, invidious, bismarckian, divinize, granitelike, deweyan, fons et origo, kulak, numinousness and 107 more...
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Made up isms
Or isms that just shouldn't exist.
whateverism, nothingarianism, ism, racialism, neojacobinism, naderism, spelunketarianism
Tweets
Looking for tweets for racialism.
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"a theory that race determines human traits and capacities" - Merriam-Webster. Mar 17, 2009